Diving Deeper Into Financial Literacy — Page 3

Trading volume is the number of shares traded in a period, and it signals conviction behind a price move. See a real Rapunzl lesson on reading it.

Fiscal policy is government spending and taxation used to influence the economy. See how the 2020 CARES Act put expansionary fiscal policy into action.

A hedge fund pools money from wealthy investors and uses strategies like leverage and short selling to chase high returns, with more risk than a mutual fund.

John Rogers founded Ariel Investments in 1983 and built it into one of the largest minority-owned investment firms in the United States. Read his story.

Compare three careers using real Bureau of Labor Statistics data with this classroom activity from Rapunzl's Earned Income unit.

Learn what supply and demand means, how the supply and demand curves work, and why market equilibrium never quite arrives.

Market efficiency describes how quickly and fully prices reflect available information. See how regulators and insider trading rules protect it.

A short squeeze forces short sellers to buy back shares as a stock's price spikes. See how it works, using GameStop and AMC as the case study.

Learn what a margin call is, why brokers issue them, and how maintenance margin works when you short a stock.

A line chart connects an asset's closing prices over time into a single line. See how investors use it to spot trends, compare assets, and read the market.

Discounted cash flow values a company today based on its predicted future cash flow. See a real Rapunzl lesson on how DCF analysis works.

Technical analysis studies price charts and volume to time trades. See a real Rapunzl lesson comparing it with fundamental analysis.